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" When summer's breath their masked buds discloses : But, for their virtue only is their show, They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade, Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so ; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made : And so of you, beauteous and... "
Chaucer, 1400, to Beaumont, 1628 - Page 283
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Shakspere Weighed in an Even Balance

Alfred Pownall - Bible - 1864 - 112 pages
...masked bud discloses; Hang on such thorns and play as wantonly, But for their virtue only is their show, They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade ; Die to themselves;...not so; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made.—Sonnets, liv. 'Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud, 'Tis virtue that doth make them most...
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The Sonnets: Poems of Love

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1980 - 172 pages
...summer's breath their masked buds discloses; But, for their virtue only is their show, They live unwooed and unrespected fade, Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odors made. And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall vade, by verse distills your...
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Sonetti

William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1992 - 220 pages
...buds discloses: But for their virtne only is their show, They live unwoo'd, and unrespected fade, 10 Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so, Of their...of you, beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall vade, my verse distils your truth. Qual è la vostra sostanza, di che cosa siete dunque fatto, che...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...summer's breath their masked buds discloses. But, for their virtue only is their show. They live unwooed s odors made. And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall vade, by verse distills your...
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The Poems & Sonnets of William Shakespeare: With an Introduction and ...

William Shakespeare - English poetry - 1994 - 212 pages
...wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses: But, for their virtue only is their show, They live unwoo'd, and unrespected fade; Die to themselves....of you, beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall vade, my verse distils your truth. 55 Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall oudive...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1995 - 196 pages
...summer's breath their masked bud discloses; But for their virtue only is their show 10 They live unwooed and unrespected fade, Die to themselves. Sweet roses...beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, by verse distils your truth. 54 2 powerful - three syllables, asked to do the work of two, give strength...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets: Critical Essays

James Schiffer - Drama - 2000 - 500 pages
...As the perfumed tincture of the roses, But, for their virtue only is their show, They live unwoocd, and unrespected fade, Die to themselves. Sweet roses...of you, beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall vade, by verse distils your truth. (54.5-6, 9-14) This comparison between the rose and youth once again...
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The Rose's Kiss: A Natural History Of Flowers

Peter Bernhardt - Nature - 1999 - 296 pages
...masked buds discloses; But, for their virtue only is their show, Tliey live unwoo'd and imrespectedfade, Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made. William Shakespeare, Sonnet 54 The Primary Attractants U Lgly names have been given to some pretty...
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The Rose's Kiss: A Natural History Of Flowers

Peter Bernhardt - Nature - 1999 - 296 pages
...masked buds discloses; But, for their virtue only is their show, Tiiey live unwoo'd and unrespectedfade, Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made. William Shakespeare, Sonnet 54 The Primary Attractants U Lgly names have been given to some pretty...
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The Complete Sonnets and Poems

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2002 - 768 pages
...disclnses; liut, for their virtue only is their show, They live unvvooed, and uuresperted fade, 10 Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so; Of their...sweet deaths are sweetest odours made: And so of you, heautcous and lovely youth: When that shall vade, hy verse distils your truth. 14 vade]o; fadeiuLOON...
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